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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30
Cleveland's Prospect.

Mr. Wa..erson has very gracefully
given in his adhesion t. President
Cleveleland. Mr.. Eustis, U. s. Sen
ator from Louisiana, has a,sa
grounded arms, and says emphati.
cally: "the democratic party would
stultify at self by refusing renomi-
nate him. Cleveland is tn strongest
man the Democrats could nominate. y
He SAYS further: "Strange to say,
his his independent self-reiance
seems to be one of the the cal3es OF
of his increasing popularity" 1t is
not strange when we consider the
extreme jealousy with which the
Supreme court Of the United States
regard any interference of the legis-
lative with the Executive depart
ment Of the government, and rice 0ersa,
and the also the sound political
axiom that the Offices Of the govern
ment were never intended merely as
a reward for partisan services.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

WHILE we rejoice to see honest
and respectable foreigners immigrat-
ing into the United States, at the
same time, the practice pursued by
foreign government of dumping all
of their criminals into this country,
as sort of a Van Dieman's Land,
urgently calls for the Intervention of
congress. The natural opposition
and resistenceto hereditary monalShy
andatitled nobility fostered by habit
ual tyranny and oppression of the
poorer classes, not unfrequently runs
INTO the opposite extreme and begets
feeling Of impatience and rebellion
against the restraints of all govern
mentand introducers, into our rlnstitu-
tions made rs free as human wisdom
and the sagacity Of man can make
them, discordant elements, which
cause disturbances and imperil the
public peace by resistance to legally
constituted and wholesome authority.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Col. ENoCH ENsLEY writes from
AK Les Bains, France, July 6. to a
friend as follows: "My wife has
grown SO feeble in the last few weeks,
as to demand my attention to such
an entent as to cause me to about
give up all correspondence. We
came here from Florence about a
week ago. This is very pleasant,
highly improved place in Southest
France, near Geneva, Switzerland
atmosphere cool and bracing. BY
making extra provision of private
car, ETC., l succeeded in moving my
wife from Florence without precepti-
bic injury to her. She, however, is
growing weaker all the times, and
now it looks that she can't last many
weeks longer. Have abandoned all
hope Of getting her home alive"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

OUT.two miles North of Deilbuckle,
last Saturday, one Jesse Purcell a
Section foreman between Fosterville
and Bellbuckle, another white man,
M Philips, a blacksmith at Foster
vile, and a negro man Dan or Grant
Hovver, made an outrageous assault
upon daughter of respectable old
negro woman, called Aunt Sallie
Palmer.
The two white men caught and
held the poor struggling girl while
the negro tiend accomplished his
purpose. Philips was arrested by the
Sheriff De Garnett and his deputy
and the City Marshal while attempt
ing to make his escape on the Chatta-
nooga train. An attempt was made
to arrest Purcell, but he resisted and
was shot and killed. 1t is to be
hoped that the negro will be arrested,
and he and Philips ought to be
lynched
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THE port of the Grand Army of
Republic OF which Gen. Fairchild is
a member is not as harmonious as it
might be. George Raymer, editor of
the Madison, (Wis.,) Democrat, and
a veteran soldier, a few evenings
since, rendered his resignation, over
which there was a wrangle, during
which, the officer of the day, dem
ocrat, unbuckeled his. sword, remov-
ing his bulge and declared that he
had become disgusted with the
actions of the post and wished no
further connection with it. Efforts
were made to restore peace, but the
meeting broke up in a row. If the
thing is to be converted into a politi-
cal machine it is certain to go by the
board.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THE Brotherhood of Telegraphers
of the United States have offered 49,
000,900, for the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company, five hundred
dollars down, and the balance in six
months. The proposition is to raise
the amount by assessments on the
wages Of its members, the amount
thus paid to constitute stock in the
enterprise. The negotiations are
said to have been conducted with
great secrecy, so that it has not trans
pired whether they will get it or not.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

A REMARKABLE fact connected
with the late warm spell is that, dur
ing the time, it was a frequent occur
renee to hear of the mercury being in
the nineties in the upper Mississippi
valley and the northwest, when, at
the same hour, on the Gulf coast-so
near the tropics-the thermometer
registered but little more than eighty
degrees.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

LAST Monday Curd Pryor, Of Cairo
in Sumner county, came to town
very much excited, having previous
ly had some trouble with his wife.
Learning that constable Walton had
Il warrant for his arrest he attacked
Walton with hatchet. Walton dis
armed Pryor, but in the suffle Pryor
received a painful wound on the arm,
=IeRneSSeeuR.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

a HEAVY hail storm passed
through a part OF the State of Indiana
the other day doing immense dam
age to growing crops, trees, windows
DC. The loss is estimated at $50, 200.
The hailstones are described as being
not quite the size of grindstones, but
as large as hen-eggS.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

PRINCE FERDINAND, in view OF
the objections entertained by certain
of the crowned heads of Europe,
making it dangerous and unpleasant
for him TO become prince of Bulgaria,
has i'm tated the example of Pres
ident Cleveland, and concluded to
decline ar empty honor that would
lead only to insult and probably to
serious troble with Russia.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30
A Deputy Tax-colleoter's Stroke of Luck

"Joe" Ahearn, was as cool as an
iceberg, Notwithstanding the fact
that he had just won $4,000 in The
Louisiana state Lottery, and he was
busy "setting 'em up" 81 never
bought q ticket before in all my life,"
said Joe, "and | only did it this time
for a fyer,"-Snn Francisco, (Cal,)
Er1miaer. May l3.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

A PROJECT has been suggested for
a grandinternational emcampmentat
Chicago in October. This would be
q very good idea provided the G. A.
r. doesn't open up On the trail, and
some of its leading members can be
kept silent, otherwise the fine mill
tary companies at the south would
remain severly at home.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Col. WoLFoBD, the veteran union
soldier democrat, lifted the hiden
off w. O. Bradley, who aspires to
the honor of being beaten by Gen.
Buckner for governor Of Kentucky,
AMI Judge Finley, and poured Wit
rial on the raw" at Horse Cave, Ky.
on the 10th. His cXc0ration of Fin
ley was simply appalling.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

At New Orleans, at the depot of
the Natchez, jackson d Columbus
railroad, Griffith Enders discharged
Joe Owens from the employment of
that road, and Joe Owens discharged
pistol at Enders with a fatal result,
but not before Enders had shot Owens
f.ta,ly. Both parties were killed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

A PARTY of drunken cowboys, at
Clinton, La, on the Goth inst, COM
menced firing on the Indians eXhib-
iting in Sells Brothers Circus tent
and shot four persons, MORALLY
wounded q boy II years old, and
dangerously if not fatally, wounding
three Others, another boy 10 years
old, a woman, and one ofthe Indians.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Our readers viii be charmed to
learn that the health of the Emper-
or William, or Wilhelm, of Ger
many is improving, lie is said,
however, still to have fits Of somna-
lency even in the midst Of his work
sometimes. This is probably be-
cause the Emperor drinks too much
b aer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THE Shelbyville papers contain
the most exciting and satisfactory
accounts Of the arrangements made
for boring, and the boring, for oil,
and the rapid progress made In bor-
ing, ETC., but no oil has yet been
struck.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THOMAS L. POWELL, Of Columbuss
was nominated for governor Of Ohio
at Cleveland by the democratic con-
vention on the Dist and ID. G. Cole
man for lieutenant governor. y
platform was adapted endorsing
president Cleveland's administra-
ton.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

1T WAS expected that the resolu-
ton of endorsement by the republican
convention of Friday Of John Sher-
man for President would pass with
out a ripple. And if nominated by
the National Republican Convention,
his defeat before the people would be
equally as certain and easy. The
people have not forgotten the man
who manipulated the machinery
which counted in Hayes and counted
out Iflden, nor the interesting little
episode Of Mrs. Eliza Pinkstone.
The resolution in the Cleveland, o.,
convention endorsing Mr., Cleveland
was passed amid a perfect torrent of
applause.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

AN exchange says that a woman
was cured OF a smake-bite by whisky
and therefore it is opposed to the
constitutional amendment. A
most conclusive argument. On the
other hand we have heard Of men
being badly snake-bit "by using
too much whisky
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Two prominent citizens of New
York were killed by lightning the
other day while out in boats fishing
in Princes Bay.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

OSCAR HARVEY, the U.S Disburs-
ing officer accused of fogery, pleaded
guilty to the charge on the 10Th, and
was sentenced by the court to fifteen
years Of hard labor in the penteni-
tiary.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

AT South Pttsburg, Mr. Chas.
Meyer, on the 10Th inst, walked to
the Alabama State line two and
half miles distant, bought a jug of
whiskey and commenced drinking
while he was hot. He returned
home on the 1880 p. m. train and at
10 p. 10. was a corpse.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THE Standard Oil Company's
works at Constable Hook, n. y,
were partially consumed by fire on
the 25th inst. Loss 81 100000, with
out insurance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

AT Trenton, N. j., on the Goth,
DR.. w. +. Carver broke 1000 glass
balls in Al minutes with repeating
rifle. He only missed twenty-four
out of 1,036.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

News comes from abroad that Mr.
Blaine is suffering so much from an
weakness in tie spinal
column that he is about to abandon
his trip to Paris and other points in
Europe. Probably the giving down
in the backbone is owing to the news
Of the Cleveland boom in the United
States.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

FRITZ WEGNER, a tall, thin old
German of New York City, is regu-
larly engaged in the business Of mole
for which he receives s. par
day or $40 per thousand.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Miss MATTE OUTLAW has re-
turned home from Clarksville, where
she has been visiting for the past
three weeks.-PtriS Pst InteHigencer.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

A BRICKMAsoN named a. Chester
died from the joint effects of whisky
and overhead in Birmingham, Ala,
on the Goth inst.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30
she is the Taol Of My Neart.

Well, then, why don't you do
something to call back thero5es to her
cheeks and the light to her eyes
Don't you see she is suffering from
nevous debility, the result Of female
weakness? ?
A bottle of DIR. Harper's Iron
Tonic viii brighten those pale
cheeks and send new life through
that wasted form. If you love her
take heed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

GALLATIN is soon to have hand
some school building erect...
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

American: A telegram from
Indian ipoiis says a consignment OF
eggs in a local firms warehose has
been hatched out by the hot weather.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

THE Rochester, New York, Post
Express, Republican, is almost
ready to throw up the sponge in that
state.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

Col. THOMAS L. JoNEs, Of Ken
lucky. died at his home in Newport,
KY, on the both inst.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-07-30

careful prompt
has your business respectfully solicited JNo w. FAXoN CO.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

tho individual or of the state! Is il the
function of government to do this? No:
not unless it is its function to render it
harder to do right instead of easier.
Is there anything in the world men will
reason about SO absurdly and illogically as
about the governments right to outlaw the
saloony The government outlaws brothels.
why? In order to decrease the extent of the
social evil. Yet here is an institution which.
according to Sanger's History of Prostitu-
ton, is the most prolific source of prosti-
tuion, and the government must not out
law it, because of the sacred right of per-
sonal iberty"!
Neal Dow says he knows of many men in
Maine who, endeavoring to reform, have
gone there in order to get away from the
open saloon. which was such menace thew
dared not trust themselves in its vicinity.
In Kansas, according to Governor Martin,
there are hundreds of families who have
fled from license States, afraid to bring up
their boys and girls in the baleful presence
OF the saloon. In which States, Kansas
and Maine, or the license States, is Mr..
Gladstone's definition of the function of
government realized? There never was an
evil in the world which had less claim to be
let alone BY the government than this saloon
evil. If it were not for the millions it has
amassed, the political influence it Yields.
and the appetite it feeds, the man who
would argue against its outlawry would be
ridiculed as "crank" by every newspaper
in the country.
The saloon must go!-The Voice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
An Ingenious Spider.

Spiders are not looked upon with
much favor by people in general,
though they are very bright, intel
lectual folk, with decided aptitude
for geometry. They are the only ami
mails which are known toiconstruct nets
for the capture of prey. The follow
ing example of their ingenuity is from
the notes of a traveller in New Guinea.
II saw" he says, "a small spider which
had spun its web under the edge of one
of my boxes, and taken butterfly at
least ten times its own size. No sooner
did the latter find itself caught than it
began to futter. I then watched the
spiders proceedings.
ut issued from its hiding-place, and
threw itself upon its victim, but with
out injuring it. Looking attentively I
saw that it attached thread to the end
of one wing, with which it ran away,
and made it fast to the box, SO that the
butterfly could not stir this wing. The
spider then descended again, and re-
peated the performance at the other
wing. It went backward and forward
on similar errands eleven times, on
each occasion diminishing its poor vic.
TINS power to futter, until at last it
could neither move nor offer any re-
sistance.
II thought that now, probably, the
time had come for the spider to be-
gin to sup, but it's work was not yet
done.
II saw it descend again. and unlock
one wing from the side to which it was
fastened; the spider then climbed
up, endeavoring to raise it prey, and
having secured the wing he re-de-
seconded and cut another thread; then
mounting again, repeated the perform
ance.
at assembled and descended twenty
one times, loosening all the threads,
and making them fast higher up, until
it had hoisted its prey to the mouth
of it's den. Having accomplished this,
it shut itself up to enjoy the fruits of
its toll; but it seemed to me such an
intelligent spider that I thought it
worthy of being preserved in spirits
of wine"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
THE LATE JOHN B. FINCH.
The Foremost Temperance Roformer Ha
Fallen.

The Foremost Temperance Roformer Has
Fallen.
have noticed and have heard others re-
mark that very little is said in the papers
in reference to the death of Mr.. John B.
Finch. 1t is not, perhaps, surprising that
this should be the case, as presume many
people simply regard him as wandering
lecturer, somewhat conspicuous for his abil-
ity, but not differing from the scores of
others who held meetings in the interest Of
Temperance reform.
1t is due to say that in the death of Mr..
Finch the foremost reformer has fallen.
He was not only foremost in general ability
but in official position. AS Chairman of the
the National Committee of the Prohibition
party he had such following as is indi
Gated by the 100000 votes of the party. and
this leadership was not q mere nominal Of
fair Mr.. Finch was coming to make him
self felt as the real leader Of this army,
both East and West, especially in the North
ern States. Not SO much, of course, in the
South, because the party can scarcely be
said to be organized there yet. But in all
the affairs of the party he was authority.
State conventions, which he was quite in
the habit of attending, delighted to do him
honor.
In addition to being Chairman of the
committee, he was the chief of the 600, 900
Good Templars of the world, and here he
made his genius and organizing power felt
to most extraordinary extent. Only this
year he carried through TO successful COM
pletion the difficult task of uniting the Sc
ceding body of British Good Templars to
the original body Of the United States and
Australia, so that instead of two divisions
there is now but one. The measure was
carried through in spite of the most deter
mined opposition by some of the oldest
and me st influential members of the body,
and, strange to say, SO far as I am aware,
it was done without single permanent al
ieniation. Now that he is gone, those that
labored most earnestly to prevent the con-
summationof that scheme are among his
most earnest eulogists, nor did they wait
until his death to pronounce their verdict.
Mr. Finch had been Tor many years vic
tim of an organic disease of the heart, and
had frequent severe attacks. His death
vas caused simply by more aggravated
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
DISGUSTED WITH THE TRAFFIC.
An Editor Who Has Made His Living Out
of 1t Resigns.

An Editor Who Has Made His Living Out
of 1t Resigns.
John R. Dunlap, editer of the Vine and
SPIRIT Reuieac, has severed his connection
with that whisky journal and become man
ager of the Engineering and MiasinQ Jour-
nal, Of New York. The Louisville Even-
ing Times says that he was offered q
larger salary to stay with the Wine and
SPIRIT Revter, but that "he asst GINS as his
money, but distaste for the liquor trade.
He has never felt satisfied with the work,
and has contracted u strong dislike for
some features of the whisky business and
for the methods of many of the leading
men in it"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
am, sir, your obedient servant,
D1H3 ) Ou1 VOO61CaV pC1 VUuU3
GEO, SPENCER LYTTELTON,

GEO. SPENCER LYTTELTON.
This saying of Mr.. Gladstone's could
not more patty apply to the Prohibition
party movement if it had been uttered ex-
pressly with that in view. When man
wishes to do deed of desperation, whether
to kill his wife, or mob "scab," or fire a
building, or burglarize house, almost in
yariably the first thing he does is to fortify
himself at the bar. There is hardly a class
of crime known to society, unless it is for
gerry whose commission is not rendered
easier to the criminal by the saloon. If
conscience begins to whisper, the saloon
soon silences it for the time being. If
calm wisdom begins to get the mastery over
hot head and bounding pulses, the dram
at the bar-room sets the blood pulsating till
passion sits again supreme. On the other
hand, there is hardly line of good con-
duct that the saloon does not render it
harder to follow. On this score the Lon
don Times says:
drinking battles us, confounds US,
shames us, and mocks us at every point. 1t
outwits alike the teacher. the man of bust
ness, the patriot, and the legislator.
Under the accumulatiye influence
of alcohol the honest man turns knave, the
respectable man suddenly loses principle
and self-respect, the wise man is utterly
foolish, the rigidly moral man takes a
plunge into libertinism.
And yet the Government, whose bust
ness it is to render it easier to do right,
places under the meis of law this barrier
to every conceivable reform. whether Of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

A TALLAHASSEE Fla letter says: "The
sale of liquor is now prohibited in twelve
or thirteen counties. This practical sweep
of the State by Prohibitionists has been
unexpected, but it is complete. That pro-
hibition would ever be reached in this State
was never seriously considered, but the
Prohibitlonists have gained their point by
cultivating the negroes, thing never heard
Of in this section BEFORE"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

GENTLEMAN on rear platform of
horse-car-"It's too bad for that lady
to stand. She looks as though she
would drop. Why doesn't one OF those
fellows give her seat?" Man in cor
ner seat gets out. Gentleman on the
platform slips into it with alacrity.
Conductor (solus)-"How quickly
man will change his mind sometimes!
-BOStO TRANSCRIPT.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

No LONGER allow the whisky devil to
drive Christ out OF legi Station.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

attack of the same disease. He did not
speak from the moment of the attack till
his death, which occurred in few mo-
ments.-A. j. Jutkins, IN Chicago DaiM
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
PEACE WITH ENEMIES.

ralmagcs Sermon at the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

THAT'S all the devil wanted-to be let
alone.-Er.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
Gladstone and the Saloon.

Some time ago reader of The Voice
expressed his doubt whether the declara-
ton, 1T is the function of Government to
make it easy to do right, and hard to do
wrong" really came from Mr.. Gladstone.
To set the matter at rest, we wrote to the
"Grand Old Man," and received from his
secretary the following reply:
Sir: The quotation you sent to MIR.
Gladstone on the 10th inst. is an utterance
of his own.
I am, sir. Your obedient servant.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04

No Wonder Liquor Dealers All Grow
Rich
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-04
PROFIT IN SALOONS.

The saloon must go!-The Voice.